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To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. — Thiruvalluvar

Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It's all your fault, the voice whispered. I — Ruta Sepetys

I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters' job. — Rick Scott

What's proper workplace etiquette for picking up computer and tossing out window? Open window first or break glass? — Abigail Roux

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down. — Mitch Albom

Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn't stop picking at. — Chris Fuhrman

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up. — Prince William

I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them. — Richard K. Morgan

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. — Amy Tan

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me. — Poppet

When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it. — Amy Sedaris

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that. — Jay Asher

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on? — Shannen Doherty

According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice. — Timothy Keller

Just because you've got the emotional rang of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have,' said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again. — J.K. Rowling

The Hawk's keen nose is picking up the scent of a COWARD! Right . . . about . . . HERE! he snarled, and pointed at ME! — Rachel Renee Russell

Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch. — Natalie

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date! — Diane Kruger

Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad. — Keeley Hawes

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket ... — Ambrose Bierce

Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another's backs. — David McRaney

Luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know. — Garth Nix

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt - — Dave Eggers

At least if I
was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever. — C.E. Murphy

Well, now that we've knocked over one another's books, isn't the next step for our hands to accidentally touch while we're picking them up? — Lauren Kate

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made. — Peter Lynch

The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown. — Neal Stephenson

Picking me up, Lucas lays me on a blanket of soft sand and says, You have no idea what you do to me. — Rachel Harris

It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Don't just say 'I'm picking the place' - ask me where I want to go! — Cassie Scerbo

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people. — Jesse Schell

Be happy without picking flaws. — Victor Hugo

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. — Sam Levenson

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like. — Shawn Mendes

I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again. — Miley Cyrus

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs. — Kenny Rogers

A breeze flew through, picking up some leaves and swirling them around, the sound like fluttering pages in a quiet library. — Sarah Addison Allen

I'm still picking pockets
I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities. — J.D. Robb

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write. — Lou Doillon

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage. — Peter Lynch

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk! — Pawan Mishra

Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder — Kudakwashe Mazendame

There is no easy way to do a deadlift - not involving actually picking up the bar - which explains their lack of popularity in gyms around the world. — Mark Rippetoe

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. — Frank Herbert

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit. — Lisa Bevere

I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you. — Robert Frost

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do. — Spoken Reasons

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances. — Adam Carolla

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. — Alfred Doblin

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. — Kin Hubbard

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes. — Lou Holtz

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin. — Zach Condon

My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline. — Antonio Cromartie

That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death. — James Patterson

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer. — Rachel Ward

Time was supposed to heal all wounds, but how could it when Jude kept picking the scab? — Michelle Hodkin

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone. — Gene Simmons

Picking up the phone to say hello, somehow I never had. Are you okay? — Donna Tartt

The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. — Sengcan

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow. — Jonathan Tucker

You," I say accusingly, picking it up and rolling it between my fingers. "This is all your fault. — Tarryn Fisher

Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime. — Al Yankovic

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better. — Amy Dickinson

She screamed like a thousand birds were picking at her flesh. She screamed like the palace was burning down around her. — Marissa Meyer

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. — Mitch McConnell

We take care of each other like two monkeys picking each other's nits. Folks underestimate a good nit-pick. — Karen Marie Moning

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better. — Gia Coppola

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong. — Craig Lancaster

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. — Warren Farrell

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually. — Cherie Blair

It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. — Pema Chodron

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice. — Bob Corker

I hate picking out clothes. — G-Eazy

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl. — Abigail Washburn

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. — Sandra Bullock

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson

Picking up the pieces of a broken relationship is like gathering up shards of glass with bear hands and eyes closed. — Michael Faudet

Was All Father cherry picking from his daughter's crazy ramblings in order to form the basis for his own religion? — Griffin Hayes

I've decided to become gay, not in a sexual way, but I am going to start picking up around the house. — Dov Davidoff

To you, it was just picking flowers. To them, it was a massacre. — Pleasefindthis

I will tell you what is poetry ...
It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit ... — Chelsey Minnis

She was short, and even in a good mood she talked like she was half a step away from picking a fight. — Haruki Murakami

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one.Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying — Gayle Forman

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose? — Bill Maher

Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer. — Margaret Brownley

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child. — Matthew De Abaitua

Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time. — Frances Hardinge

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well. — Zooey Deschanel

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking. — Earl Scruggs

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite. — Bill Keller

It's not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend. — John Paul Warren

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. — Roy Wood

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. — Neil Gaiman

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts. — Moshe Dayan

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time. — Ozzy Osbourne

I am very busy picking up stems and stamens as the hollyhocks leave their clothes around. — Emily Dickinson

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. — Ambrose Bierce

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. — Alan Ladd

Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one. — Rachel Zoe